This is an incomplete list of notable online image archives, including both image hosting websites, and archives hosted by libraries and other academic or historical institutions.
List of archives
| Site | Type | Number of Images | Video | Sound | Search | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Stock | Stock Images | 366,000,000+ (January 2025)1 | Yes | No | Yes | English, French |
| Alamy | Stock Images | 428,251,303 (October 2025)2 | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default)+ German |
| ArenaPAL Performing Arts Image Library | Performing Arts | 5,000,000+ | No | No | Yes | English |
| artresearch.net | Art | 2,200,000+ | No | No | Yes | English, German, Italian, Dutch |
| Artstor Digital Library | ||||||
| Associated Press | Rights Managed | 12,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English |
| Bridgeman Art Library | ||||||
| California Digital Library | ||||||
| California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library Digital Collections | ||||||
| Camera Press | ||||||
| Chicago Daily News (1902–1933), collection of over 55,000 images on glass plate negatives | ||||||
| Depositphotos | Stock Images | 164,000,000+ (June 2020) | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default)+ 21 other languages |
| ETH Library, Image Archive | Commons | 1,000,000+ | No | No | Yes | German, English |
| Europeana | ||||||
| Flickr | Commons | Yes | No | No | English (Default) + 9 other languages | |
| Frick Digital Image Archive | ||||||
| Geograph Britain and Ireland | Commons | 7,900,000+ (March 2025)3 | No | No | Yes | English |
| Getty Images | ||||||
| Harvard Library | ||||||
| Internet Archive | 5.13 million (March 2025)4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Library of Congress | Public domain | |||||
| Life (magazine) | ||||||
| Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-images | Commons | approximately 400,000 | No | No | Yes | Dutch (Default)+ English |
| National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork | ||||||
| New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880 | ||||||
| New York Public Library | ≈ 30% Public domain | 922,400+ (May 2024)5 | No | No | Yes | English |
| Pexels | Pexels license | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Pixabay | Pixabay license | 950,000+ (May 2017) | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default) + 25 other languages |
| Pond5 | Royalty-free | 11,000,000+ (Jan 2017) | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + 7 other languages |
| Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access | 4,400,000+ (Jan 2023) | |||||
| Shutterstock6 | Royalty-free | 450,000,000+ (March 2025)7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + 19 other languages |
| The New York Times | Rights Managed | 5,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English |
| Time | Rights Managed | 1,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English |
| United Press International (1907–2007) | ||||||
| United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine | ||||||
| University of Southern California Libraries | ||||||
| Unsplash | Commons with additional restrictions8 | 1,000,000+ (2020) | No | No | Yes | English |
| Wikimedia Commons | Commons | 116,000,000+ (March 2025)9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + other languages |
See also
See also
References
References
- Broz, Matic (December 29, 2024). "Adobe statistics: Creative Cloud users, Adobe Stock data, & acquisitions". Photutorial. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- "alamy". www.alamy.com. Alamy Limited. 2025-10-20. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- "Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". geograph.org.uk. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- "Image". Internet Archive. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- "About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, CNET, September 23, 2009
- "Royalty Free Stock Images For Creative Projects | Shutterstock". Shutterstock.
- Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons